If you've ever walked around the streets of a Chinese city and seen sticks of brightly colored fruit shining in the winter sun, chances are that you've been at a tanghulu stall.
? Also called bingtanghulu, it's a traditional northern Chinese snack made of skewered （串起的） fresh fruit dipped into syrup that hardens quickly, creating a hard shell. Crunchy and sweet on the outside, soft and sour on the inside, this sugarcoated special ty of northern China is a winter favorite with young and old alike.
, many creative traders — and tanghulu lovers at home —will also make it with any number of other diverse fruits like strawberries, grapes, mandarin oranges and pineapple segments （瓣；片）.
Tanghulu dates back to the Song Dynasty when it was a favorite with the Chinese imperial family. Legend has it that when a princess in the court fell sick, a doctor suggested she eat hawthorn （山楂） fruit fried in brown sugar every day for two weeks. On her recovery, the doctor became famous. .
Nowadays it's perhaps the most popular street sweet in China.. When the weather cools, the vendors（小贩） increase, and you can't avoid seeing them..
A. So what is tanghulu
B. Why is tanghulu so popular
C. While traditionally made with Chinese hawthorn
D. Tanghulu attracted more and more people's attention
E. And the snack found a permanent place on China's streets
F. At the cost of just ten yuan, there's not much stopping you from trying it
G. You'll often see street vendors with their long bamboo skewers of shiny candied fruit
